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financial summary provided by
the county to HuffPost and calls
it “incomprehensible.”
“I don’t see how anybody could
have made an intelligent decision
on this based on the information
they’ve shared,” he says. “It’s a serious breach of normal standards
of transparency.”
Without a detailed financial
breakdown of current spending
or of the budgeting of the new
metro agency, it is impossible to
verify even the most basic claims
being made about the proposal,
says O’Donnell.
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“They’re doing this unde r cover
of darkness,” he says. “It’s beyond
belief. This can’t be anything less
than a scandal.”
Kevin Roberts, a spokesman for
Christie, says the governor “fully
supports” the policing plan. He
declined to comment on questions
about the plan’s finances or on issues of transparency.
“Those specific questions about
the savings estimates and breakdown are best directed to the
county and/or city,” Roberts said
in an email.
At a press conference in September, Christie praised the Camden plan and called it a model for
the rest of the state, according to
Crosses
honor the
memory
of those
who were
murdered in
Camden this
past year.